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Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by mofe »

pqdbr wrote: post #210
adrianhel wrote: post #73

What is happening with Macs? My butterfly keyboard repeats keys. This easily halves my typing speed. (Or rather "Itt easily halves my ttyping speed") Yesterday my machine got stuck booting with a black screen after running out of battery with the backlight turned off. Also, the keyboards have gone from making virtually no sound to making loud clicking sounds. I have also had a glitch where the sound gets distorted.

God, happy to see I’m not the only one with repeating keys issues in my MacBook Pro. Seriously, it’s maddening. It has halved my typing speed.

Apple will fix you keyboard free of charge, i got mine replaced by apple two weeks ago and had zero issues ever since.

https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by Jwarder »

bartread wrote: post #161
jedberg wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdotally, everyone I know who works for Apple is paid below market rate. They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”. I know one guy making market and he’s in the video streaming product group.

> They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”. That reminds me of the post from a few days ago on HN: "#### you: pay me!" I think there comes a point in many (and I'd hope all, but I don't think it's true) peoples' careers where they realise that, in business, money talks and everything else is sadly just chatter.

Your attitude seems common, but I'm quite curious just how common it is.

Personally I totally happy with my current income and don't have any real interest in making more. I can pay my bills, buy anything that catches my eye, max out my 401k, travel to visit family. I don't turn down raises or bonuses, it is nice to have a little bit extra in case of emergencies. But an extra dollar doesn't mean much compared to the personal satisfaction of working on good projects.

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by _rs »

anentropic wrote: post #172
_asummers wrote: post #19

Semi-related: But does anyone know why unplugging headphones while audio is muted causes the audio to become unmuted? This is easily my least favorite bug and results in a 10 second shuffle of frantically finding the mute button again, sometimes with the laptop closed. It seems like something that would never pass QA in previous iterations of Apple, though I could be remembering the past more fondly than was true.

My favourite bug is the one where your audio gets randomly panned until one day you realise you're only listening to the Left channel of the music, and you have to go into audio settings and pan it back to the centre

Yep, I've had this problem too many times. This app seems to fix it for me: https://www.tunabellysoftware.com/balance_lock/

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by screye »

StreamBright wrote: post #115
8fingerlouie wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When it comes to (smart)phones, you don't really have much choice. You either consent to being exploited by Google, or you pay a pound of flesh to Apple. As for the pricing of the phones, nobody is forcing you to upgrade every year. I've done that ever since the original iPhone came out, but when i bought the X, i also decided to only upgrade every 2-3 years to justify the cost. MacBooks are a sad story though. I'm "…

True. We need a 3rd player on this market that does not do surveillance and produces products with reasonable price. A business focused phone would be great. There are very few applications that you could get away.

Windows phone could have been it.

Windows had a distinct identity, a better home screen and an inbuilt dark mode that worked amazingly well with AMOLEDS. They also had great battery life and ran faster on low powered devices vs android of the time.

It died for good reason, but it certainly was a shame. I would love to see Windows take shot at it again, but I doubt they will.

At this point, Samsung or Xiaomi may be the ones best poised to take on the current duopoly.

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by wayne_skylar »

docker_up wrote: post #41

Apple appears to be coming to some sort of head at this point. This is speaking as someone heavily invested in Apple products and shares. Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They are too damn expensive, with nothing to justify their costs. I am one of the morons who upgraded to the XS, but only because I needed the 512GB storage. If not for the inc…

I'm mainly frustrated by the lack of advancement in the Macbook Pro line. I have a 2014-ish MacBook Pro and accidentally got water on the keyboard. It works fine with an external keyboard. Instead of paying 400 dollars to get the keyboard working again I chose to buy a refurbished Macbook Pro from 2017.

What was super frustrating was that the specs are almost the same after a three year gap. I still have 8GB or RAM and still have a 128GB SDD. The processor and has double the cores, but overall it's not the kind of improvement you'd expect from a three year difference.

Instead it's thinner and only has USB-C inputs. I would have never chosen to buy this machine on the merits alone.

I'm in the same boat with the iPhone by the way. I have an iPhone 6 and really see no reason to upgrade. It works well enough for me and I have no appetite to spend 500 or 1000 dollars on a phone that will do the same things for me.

And yes iTunes is a disgrace. I've switched to Spotify for podcasts and most music and it's far better.

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by Shaddox »

isostatic wrote: post #98
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of salt in this thread. I have a Mac because I enjoy it the most for software development. It's not a status symbol because, well, almost everyone here has a Mac. The alternatives are Windows-based laptops - who often lag behind software development support (e.g. ports), or Linux which is still just not good enough for desktop use. I use Windows at home for not-development and have used both Windows and Linux fo…

> Linux which is still just not good enough for desktop use. For you perhaps. I've used desktop/laptop linux for nearly 20 years and it works just fine, millions of others do too.

After the windows 10 blunders lately I decided to give Linux on the desktop another shot. Decided to go with Ubuntu since it's the most popular distro so there's more likely to be support for it.

Developer tooling is really damn nice and using the command line is a joy. With proton on steam I can play a lot of the games I like.

But no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get sound to work properly. I'm using a FiiO E10K and a pair of Sennheiser HD650 and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get it to sound right. I tried editing whatever configuration file I could find and I still couldn't get it to sound not choppy. Eventually I gave up and went back on windows. Maybe when I'll change my amp I'll give it another try.

I'm glad it's working for you though.

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Post by screye »

stefanfisk wrote: post #85
blihp wrote: post #77

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Consumers. (i.e. casual computer users who aren't terribly demanding in any particular dimension) Unfortunately they've been flocking in for the 'just works' Apple reputation as it is being un-earned by Apple. But for many in this group, it's probably good enough vs. what they were using before.

They are so far ahead of Microsoft when it comes to not annoying of frustrating regular users that they can probably fall for a decade before people start abandoning the platform in any significant numbers. I just tried switching from my MBP to a Surface Laptop, and the bullshit that win 10 makes you deal with is just insane O_O

Could you give me example of windows specific headaches ?

Afaik, Windows is perfectly fine for casual users.

Apart from updates needing restarts and windows being inconvenient for programming, I don't see any clear disadvantages of using windows.

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Post by dwighttk »

GuB-42 wrote: post #226
StreamBright wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. We need a 3rd player on this market that does not do surveillance and produces products with reasonable price. A business focused phone would be great. There are very few applications that you could get away.

Business focused and reasonable price usually don't go together. Anyway, you had Blackberry which was well regarded in the business world. But they are losing to Apple and Android, and now a Blackberry is just another Android smartphone. They still provide physical keyboards though. On the consumer side, you had Windows Phone that tried to compete with Android. It was actually a nice OS, coming from a companies that…

"...they are losing to Apple and Android..."

When did you write this portion of your post? 2013?

Otherwise I agree.

Re: Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

matwood wrote: post #176
docker_up wrote: post #41

Apple appears to be coming to some sort of head at this point. This is speaking as someone heavily invested in Apple products and shares. Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They are too damn expensive, with nothing to justify their costs. I am one of the morons who upgraded to the XS, but only because I needed the 512GB storage. If not for the inc…

> Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They may have reached peak growth, but the numbers show that outside China (which in hindsight appears to have larger economic issues), millions of people buy iPhones. Are all the current iPhone users going to suddenly switch to Android? Very unlikely. By all accounts the XS is a great phone. If I had anything…

> You realize that Apple has so much money they can do both.

Nobody said they couldn't do it. The fact is that they aren't.

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